Of the pieces I've written, one of my favorites is a (... unfinished. Bleah.) "passacaglia, interlude and fugue" for flute and piano, written by me around... seven years ago or so. (At least, when I visited a Canadian friend in 1999, I'm pretty sure it already existed, along with a similar piece I had written that I did finish.)
I thought for some reason that I'd written it using Encore 2.1.1, which I had and used at the time, and used the program to convert it to MIDI. Part right, it turns out- I wrote a (substantial, for me!!) sketch on paper, entered that into Encore, fiddled with it, fiddled with it a lot more, then made the MIDI (even though the fugue was still only begun). Today I search through my overlarge collection of sketches (ten begun for every one finished) of pieces of music, and I find the 78 bars I'd written into a small music notebook. ...
Well, ... ok then. (Was looking for something nice and substantial and mine and in my opinion pretty good, too... to try my LilyPond skills on... and what is this in front of my face...) (The MIDI is at www.lightlink.com/schissel/midi/sf3.mid for such as want to hear what Encore made of it years back; LilyPond doesn't do MIDIs well, really, that I can tell.)
Oh, and credit (or blame...) for the idea of introducing the repeated theme twice at the beginning unaccompanied before the flute comes in, I owe to hearing Sir William Walton's second symphony before starting my piece, whose final movement, also a passacaglia, does the same thing...
Eric
